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Thx, yes, looks like it's Udon because I am up the road from KK, and barstool company doesn't do it for me ????

I could imagine how many disgruntled pilots there would be after being laid off without pay, without any remorse and then a letter in the mail, or an email, ah....you can come back to work now.....lol How about trying to entice them with a good pay rise morons, after all corporations are also dispensable as they are finding out.

To some it's art, to others it's just a fun thing, and then comes laser for those who regret getting them, that's even more fun when they smell the skin burning (many sessions) at great expense. The simplest way to answer the why, is, because.

OMG, it's spreading. To me this money laundering act is all BS, I mean if you have been with the banks for decades, had mortgages with them they can see through the lines, it's more involved than that, can't put my finger on it though.

As long as it's 3 times a week, I'm content, anymore than that will send me to my grave early ???? Don't think I'm joking either ????

This is all a scam and becoming a bigger plot by banks in collaboration with governments to put the squeeze on expats, for reasons unbeknown to me. Earlier this year, I had one of two banks I was with close my account because I had an overseas address as well as a PO Box back home (Oz), the other account with the other bank has a mates address in Oz, thankfully because otherwise I wouldn't be able to access funds when transferring them to my Thai account. When back in Oz next time I will open another account using my mates address as you always have to have a back up plan. Strangest thing is, the government loses here because the banks are supposed to collect the 10% withholding tax on interest earned from our accounts as expats, oh, well, not my problem, they can have nothing. Fortunately Wise who I also have an account with is registered as a bank in Oz, so that makes it another back up.

No need for me to write a book, women to me in general are pretty much all the same, they are thinkers, and are predominantly all looking for security or to increase their security via using their bodies/looks if you like to play the game, whereas men are not thinkers, they are lookers and therein lay the problem, heart on the sleeve syndrome, here's my wallet Tiruk, while your at it, my passwords to my bank accounts etc etc etc, and oh yes darling your right, best to sell my house back home to build one here and have money left over to buy a bar or whatever makes you happy. Most of those clowns fall by the roadside eventually unfortunately because they mixed their finances with love, which should be totally separate in my opinion, all men must have a plan B. to survive any potential sourness that can come with love. In my journey, meeting women who had their independence were only looking to add to their wealth/status if they could, not so different from the woman here, however we have more control given the laws here, suffice to say a woman back in my country only had to establish that I gave her a key to apartment/house to access it, and it would be basically all over for me financially if we split, she didn't have to contribute to anything, just establish that there was a relationship, whereas here, you can provide them with security using the 10% method and can walk away if it turns out sour. When and if your partner starts to not appreciate what that 40,000 baht provides her for that month, perhaps you should drop it by 10,000 or even 20,000 for the following month, sighting money problems, telling her you hope it sorts itself out soon or she may need to go to work to make up the difference, see what her reaction will be to that, just saying, sometime when they raise their heads (try it on), you have to gently put it back down where it was humbly before.

Then there is the other side of the coin, much happiness if they are both suited to each other, for one. Love becomes respect after the initial years together, the feeling of love doesn't disappear, but we learn to respect each other over the long time. We are all different and have our moods that we didn't see when courting, call it family pressure, financial pressure, period moods and just moods, that said, you have to learn to respect each others space. From my 15 + years journey, it has been the best ride of my life, sure she retired when she met me, she had many options to marry many farangs being the pretty girl that she was, still is, but was smart enough to know that she would probably end up being unhappy as a lot are, e.g. not in love. Do I know she loves me, how does anyone know what someone feels for their partner, that said, generally speaking, those hugs, kisses, small gestures and putting your partner 1st sums it up for me, but you have to also put in to receive. Nothing makes me happier to know that my girl is looked after, not spoilt by far, looked after, secure, not having to worry about where she will end up tomorrow or what pressure the family will apply to her, because cutting the head off the dragon has to be done respectfully from the beginning, that or you take her overseas where they cannot be so demanding. The old saying, "only invest as much as your prepared to lose" not only applies here in Thailand but in any country, here for me, it has always been 10% of my worth, that said, if things went pair shape tomorrow, she can have the house, the car, the bike, the kids as she would have deserved it, me on the other hand would start a different chapter in my life's journey with the remaining 90%. Moral of the story, love and finances should NEVER be mixed unless your prepared to take the risk to lose it all, that said, as long as your in control of your finances, you win all the way, and of course she will collect her lotto when you are good and gone to that outer sphere. Love you long time ????❤️

Especially hanhom old folk with thick wallets, not your usual barstool type of old folk, fit, slim and hanhom.....giddy up

Heading to Nong Kai with some of the lads at the end of the month and wanting to know what bars, if any, near the market along the Mekong have any fine young ladies there to entertain us old folk. We've been to Udon Thani before, but want to branch out a little, or should we give it a miss and revisit Udon Thani again ?

If you could understand what you read, it would be much simpler to explain, perhaps you should start reading and understanding again, but ok, one more time for the d-mmies out there, I said, "wouldn't it". Off you go now like a good wittle boy and smoke your legal gunja now.

As they say, everything in moderation if it's legal, excess kills, usually ones self, i.e. self inflicted long painful death, no real cause to others apart from heart ache and grief with regards to alcohol, unless it's mixed with other drugs IMO.

Regardless of the causation, e.g. not in his right mind at the time. One has to ask: 1) Did he take an illegal substance, yes 2) Did he murder innocent people because of the effect of the illegal substance he took, possibly a yes, regardless, he murdered innocent people 3) Did he know it was an illegal substance, yes 4) Did anyone force him to take the substance, no At the end of the day, we all have a responsibility in society to not cause harm to others, now I overindulged in drinking alcohol and was totally smashed, and was driving home and had an accident, my responsibility to society just went out the window, as the deaths I could cause on the road on the way home would be contributed to my irresponsibility, i.e. drinking excessively, not catching a cab, etc When we overstep the mark, this is what happens, I have no sympathy for those who do not act responsibly and harm or kill others for their lack of respect to others. One has to ask oneself what if that was my 4year old, playing in the front yard shot dead because this piece of garbage took an illegal substance and lost it, should I say, it wasn't him, he wasn't in his right state of mind, it was the drugs that caused him to act that way, again, refer to 3 & 4 above. To put it mildly, there is no excuse for this kind of behaviour and he should be put down asap IMO. For those who defend him because they believe it was the effect of the drug/s, then ask yourself this, would that innocent 4 year old be waking up this morning if he didn't take that illegal substance, obviously that's a no brainer, that said, there is a reason why these drugs are an illegal substance. RIP

Wouldn't go well if it was Anutin's approved medicinal medicine would it.

Um, lots of unregistered motorbikes and vehicles up here in Isaan where motorists ride/drive past the comedy Capper cops only seen directing traffic before and after school, people blatantly breaking the law with other matters also, right in front of them. The so called 1,000 baht "late fee" and annual extension of the vehicle's registration not being renewed will only cost the government as people will not pay the fine, that said, they don't give a rats a$$ whether they renew their registration. If they want to get serious, add to that, license cancellation, ooops, forgot, most people up here don't that either, maybe jail time, oooops, over crowded. Perhaps towing the vehicle or bike to a storage facility incurring daily charges until the fine is paid, or then auction the bike/vehicle off after a set date. Can't believe how many decades behind the rest of the world Thailand is, especially with the lazy so called "police force". Will they lick the stamp ?

Possibly lining him up to take over Anutin's position when he pushes to become the next PM.

They should listen to Anutin's dual pricing announcement the other day, double the room rate prices for farangs....lol

Makro had Bertoli virgin oil on sale for 390 baht per 1 litre bottle when I was there last week, I would thin extra would have been about the same, usually around 500 baht. Palm oil is so so bad for you yet they cook in it like a lizard flat out drinking.

I could buy in Australia for that kind of money, and many other places around the world that are 1st class countries, so why would I buy here when it's a "developing country", especially when real estate here is not something that increases cyclically to the extent like other places, i.e. doubles in value within a decade. Another dead duck in the water.

I know, but remember as the saying goes you got to suck it up, at times.

I miss the adrenaline rush and the sound when upping the anti going through an underground tunnel. The blade is a nice bike and I understand what you mean about keeping it respectable speed wise, reminds me of a time when my cousin was having trouble with his teenage son, e.g. he was caught in a stolen car with a few school mates (private) school, expelled him, so I offered to take him out for the day and have a talk to him, having been brought up on the rougher side of the bridge. So I got him on the back of the bike, tilted my registration label upward so that it covered my number plate, if pulled over could always tell the cops the wind must have moved it up and that I would relocate it as soon as I got home. Anyways, going through the harbour tunnel in Sydney, I started to gear down to open it up and all of a sudden I got this feeling not to open it up, have no idea why, and why I went with my feeling, anyways got to Bondi Beach and got off the bike and noticed the rego label moved back down making my number plate clearly visible and I said sheet, lucky I didn't open it up in the tunnel or I would have lost my license (speed cameras) and he said what do you mean, I said my plate is clearly visible, he said, yeh I saw your rego label covering it so I moved it, didn't want you getting booked and all......lol, I said you little sheet, you could have cost me my license, I do it on purpose, as I would rather a small fine than a loss of license, he was quite apologetic.

I would get more than that in 1st on my 1993 D3 ZZR 1100 ( battlestar Galatica) back in the day, and hardly got out of 3rd when out and about, i.e. unless I got onto a freeway I was familiar with bowing out at 220kmh because the front would start to vibrate a little, so would then back off. Have to admit, that bike in the clip sounds like it's gear are auto changing, like I said, been a while.

This is tragic. On Sunday took the family out for lunch and as we were heading down the freeway sitting on 90 (works in progress ahead), truck to my left in the side street, not 100 metres ahead of me, just pulls straight out taking both lanes, (double boggy), my wife yelled, by then I was going through the gears like a race driver and foot on the brakes, two young ones in the back and I almost kissed his rear as I had nowhere to go, I would think others would have kissed his rear, that or gone off the road. Did I loose it, did I get angry, let's just say if I had a hand gun I would have unloaded it's contents at his side of the cabin as I drove past, hoping to have hit him at least 6 times. The above said, he isn't the 1st and won't be the last, got to have your eyes everywhere, expecting the unexpected at any moment here in Thailand, because most of these truck and bus drivers, let alone minivan, motor vehicle drivers and bike riders shouldn't be on the fricken roads. Until the motor registry and cop force get it's sheet together, we can all expect a lot more stories like this, hoping not to become a statistic. Son (18) is now buying a bike after getting his motor riders licence, I have sent him countless bike and car accidents from here in Thailand, including ones of the Doctor (Valentino Rossi) on the race circuit, plus the accidents that followed, telling him it was safer on the track if he had any testosterone that he wanted to get rid of, because it's not him that he has to worry about out there, it's the others. Hopefully he gets it.

I find diesel to be cheap enough, wife keeps cursing when she has to put petrol in hers, I said, I told you, diesel Tiruk, diesel, at 35.65 baht a litre, I find it affordable, only up around 5 baht more to what I used to pay.